House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Veteran Education Empowerment Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 28, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 28, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3586.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 94, May 28, 2021, Page H2679):Article ISource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 28, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 9 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3586, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3586
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
116 cosponsors — 26 Republicans, 90 Democrats
26 of 116 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Colin Allred (D-TX), Cynthia Axne (D-IA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Ed Case (D-HI), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tom Cole (R-OK), J. Correa (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX) and 86 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lois Frankel.
- H.R. 6015 (117th) Benjamin Berell Ferencz Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 4134 (117th) Keeping Girls in School Act
- H.R. 8227 (117th) Speak Out Act
- H.Con.Res. 24 (117th) Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity between wages paid to men and women.
- H.R. 5842 (117th) EMPOWER Act
- H.R. 1455 (117th) To obtain and direct the placement in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds of a monument to honor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court…
Related bills
- H.R. 6358 (119th) Veteran Education Empowerment ActCross-Congress related bill
- S. 5582 (119th) Veteran Education Empowerment ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.